Russia Seeks Help From U.S. as It Presses New Browder Charges
- Russian prosecutors say $2 million funding broke U.S. laws
- Kremlin accuses investors in Browder fund of evading taxes
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Russia levied new charges against U.S.-born investor and Kremlin critic Bill Browder, stepping up a quest that has gotten little traction in the West with a call to the U.S. to investigate claims shareholders in his fund used illegal profits from Russia to fund contributions to the Democratic Party.
Once one of the country’s largest foreign fund managers, Browder has led a campaign to impose sanctions on alleged human-rights violators in Russia for more than a decade. Courts and governments in the U.S. and Europe have repeatedly rejected past Kremlin calls to arrest him, dismissing the charges as politically motivated.